Random Old Records Podcast #38

[12/2/2019 note: When I uploaded this episode eight years ago, it contained an audio error that cut off the last several seconds. It has bugged me ever since. So, I went back a couple weeks ago and completely remixed, remastered, and recreated the episode from scratch. I got married a month ago, and these songs were the soundtrack of my wife and I's first year together. They will remind me of that time forever, and I am glad the episode is finally complete.]

2011 is almost over, and oh my goodness where did the time go?! The past twelve months were filled with all kinds of good things for me on the life front, and much like last year, there were SO MANY crucial rock n' roll records released and a bunch of killer shows that damaged my eardrums even further. EPISODE #38 of Random Old Records cuts away all of the extra padding and somewhat clever soundbytes and presents an hour of my personal favorite songs of 2011 with no interruptions!

You'll hear all the songs I've been raving about since January, including heavy hitters like "Gold Sneakers" by Wax Idols, "Weekend" by Smith Westerns, and "Into Black" by Blouse. You'll hear heavy-duty psychedelic blowouts from The Paperhead, Thee Oh Sees, and The People's Temple, and perfect pop from Dum Dum Girls, Colleen Green, and The Babies. Have a great 2012, and thanks for listening!!

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Random Old Records Podcast #38

Released 12/14/11
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1. Smith Westerns - "Weekend"
(Dye It Blonde, Fat Possum 2011)
2. Dum Dum Girls - "Bedroom Eyes"
(Only In Dreams, Sub Pop 2011)
3. Wax Idols - "Gold Sneakers"
(No Future, HoZac 2011)
4. Colleen Green - "Y Do U Call Me?"
(Green One, Hardly Art 2011)
5. Vivian Girls - "Dance (If You Wanna)"
(Share The Joy, Polyvinyl 2011)
6. Natural Child - "Chris' Blues"
(1971, Infinity Cat 2011)
7. Black Lips - "New Direction"
(Arabia Mountain, Vice 2011)
8. Bare Wires - "Sweet Little Stranger"
(Cheap Perfume, Southpaw 2011)
9. Jacuzzi Boys - "Automatic Jail"
(Glazin', Hardly Art 2011)
10. Mikal Cronin - "Again and Again"
(Mikal Cronin, Trouble In Mind 2011)
11. The Babies - "Breakin' The Law"
(The Babies, Shrimper 2011)
12. The Paperhead - "Can't Keep My Eyes Open"
(The Paperhead, Trouble In Mind 2011)
13. Thee Oh Sees - "Chem-farmer"
(Carrion Crawler/The Dream, In The Red 2011)
14. The People's Temple - "Axe Man"
(Sons Of Stone, HoZac 2011)
15. Blouse - "Into Black"
(Blouse, Captured Tracks 2011)
16. Widowspeak - "In The Pines"
(Widowspeak, Captured Tracks 2011)
17. Ty Segall - "Goodbye Bread"
(Goodbye Bread, Drag City 2011)
18. The Strange Boys - "Mama Shelter"
(Live Music, Rough Trade 2011)
19. Jeffrey Novak - "Looking Down At You"
(4 Track Solo EP, Trouble In Mind 2011)

Random Old Records Podcast #37

Hey folks, I've been on VACATION! Yeah, it's been a year now since I got a full-time grown-up job, so I finally decided to cash in and take a week of paid vacation. Lemme back up a bit and be honest. I didn't just go nuts and check out for awhile, I went nuts and impulsively bought tickets to the Friday night show of the Norton Records 25th anniversary celebration at the Bell House in Brooklyn! I just couldn't miss the Reigning Sound, Mark Sultan, the Great Gaylord, Jackie and The Cedrics, Mighty Hannibal, Andre Williams, and an all-star band led by Mick Collins on guitar. What a lineup! After a five day weekend in NYC that involved much record shopping (original pressings of the second New York Dolls LP AND PiL's Flowers Of Romance, YES!), a midnight show at the KILLER Spectacle Theater, a trip to Coney Island for a Nathan's Famous, and a few moments of clarity in a garden on top of a seventeen story building, I'm back and proud to present Random Old Records Podcast #37, which also happens to be the third anniversary show!

Yep, I've been doing this podcast for a solid three years now and it might seem easy, but it can get hard as hell to scour the bins and blogs for a monthly hour of fresh jams sometimes. Luckily, the fall has coughed up a whole bunch of sizzling slabs that I can't stop spinning, and the springboard was a killer weeknight show at local dive The Comet, featuring Davila 666, Jacuzzi Boys, and Barreracudas. You'll hear a track from each band on this episode, kicking off with Davila's modern classic "El Lobo." Elsewhere, there's bubblegum-catchy glammy power pop punk junk from Italy's Giuda, Bare Wires, Video, and White Faces, another track from the AMAZING new Strange Boys LP (the best American rock n' roll band since the Replacements, for real), dark mysterious pop from Captured Tracks heroes Blouse and The Soft Moon, noisy Ramones worship from Terry Malts, noisy 90s slacker-rock worship from Heavy Times, and a whole helluva lot MORE!

I know that I say it every time a new episode comes out, but seriously, THANK YOU for reading this blog and listening to the podcast! Whether you've been here since the beginning, or just found this site while searching for Mediafire links to the new Bad Sports LP or whatever and decided that REAL old school music writing still had merit in 2011, I'm glad you came along for the ride. Every time I think about quitting and settling into old age and complacency, my mind is blown by another bunch of kids with guitars and the cycle starts all over again. If going to the Norton bash taught me anything, it's that real, passionate rock n' roll still pokes through the cracks in this monolith of Internet cultural saturation every once in awhile, and it's no less vital than it was back in whatever time and place you decide is THE DAY. Hope you dig episode #37, and here's to three more years!

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Random Old Records Podcast #37
Released 11/15/2011
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1. Davila 666 - "El Lobo"

(Davila 666, In The Red 2011)

2. The Strange Boys - "Punk's Pyjamas"

(Live Music, Rough Trade 2011)

3. Bare Wires - "Ain't Worth Walkin' Away"

(Cheap Perfume, Southpaw 2011)

4. White Faces - "Star Of Bright"

(White Faces, Windian 2011)

5. The Barreracudas - "Don't Roll Your Eyes"

(Nocturnal Missions, Douchemaster 2011)

6. Giuda - "Don't Stop Rockin'"

(Racey Roller, Dead Beat 2011)

--record collectors suck.

7. The Penetrators - "Gotta Have Her"

(Gotta Have Her 7", Windian 2011)

8. Heavy Times - "Let It Die"

(Jacker, HoZac 2011)

9. Terry Malts - "Something About You"

(Something About You 7", Slumberland 2011)

10. Bad Sports - "Can't Just Be Friends"

(Kings Of The Weekend, Dirtnap 2011)

11. Video - "Eyes"

(Leather Leather, Play Pinball 2011)

12. Spider Fever - "Back To You"

(She's No Saint 7", Cave Punk 2011)

--muscleheads on a muscle beach.

13. Jacuzzi Boys - "Cool Vapors"

(Glazin', Hardly Art 2011)

14. Reading Rainbow - "White Noise"

(Prism Eyes, HoZac 2010)

15. Super Wild Horses - "Enigma"

(Fifteen, HoZac 2010)

16. Bad Banana - "Teleport Tonight"

(Cry About It, Puzzle Pieces 2011)

17. Colleen Green - "Jesse Has A New Girl"

(Cujo, AF 2011)

--Bob Ross, just painting some trees. NBD.

18. Half String - "Evergreen"

(Tripped Up Breathing, Independent Projects 1994)

19. The Soft Moon - "Alive"

(Total Decay, Captured Tracks 2011)

20. Blouse - "They Always Fly Away"

(Blouse, Captured Tracks 2011)

21. Wax Idols - "Grey Area"

(No Future, HoZac 2011)

Random Old Records Podcast #36

Woah, is it really October already?! Judging by the clock at the bottom right of my computer screen and the flannel shirt wrapped around my torso, it must be. Where has all the time gone? It seems like April was only a few minutes ago, and now the year is damn near over. I've been to a bunch of shows, crossed a couple of folks off my live bucket list (New York Dolls, Wanda Jackson), and spent probably a few grand on records, and what do I have to show for it? Slightly more damaged eardrums and a whole buncha physical media that will be a real pain in the ass to lift if I ever move into a new place, I reckon. Seriously though, 2011 might have already topped 2010 as one of the best music years since the mid-90s, and it's not over yet!

Random Old Records Podcast #36 is out now, and it's loaded with just over an hour of jams, starting off with the raging opening salvo from Let's Wrestle's new LP, "In Dreams Part II." It sounds so much like the aforementioned mid-90s that you'd swear that 15+ years of godawful over-produced mainstream rock didn't kill good music after all and that the kids really and truly are alright. The kids really ARE alright, even though their space phone zombie walks and Twitter posts suggest otherwise. Forget about the waves of whiny bedroom folk and trendy corporate "garage rock" wannabes, there's real and VITAL rock n' roll still being cranked out by the truckload all over the world. No better example can be found than the second track on this here podcast, a sizzling blast from the brand new 10" LP from smooth punk titans Bare Wires, who continue their unparalleled streak of insta-classic bangers with "Sweet Little Stranger." That nasty fuzz and snarling vocal might just lift you out of your plush computer chair, Mr. Internet cynic!

Elsewhere, you'll hear the lead-off single from the Strange Boys' highly anticipated new LP out in a few weeks, which finds the Austin garage rockers moving even closer to that Exile On Main Street vibe, another perfect 80s pop jam from the new Dum Dum Girls album, some delightfully evil synth punk from Swedish noise terrorists Black Bug, a fuzzed-out Beach Boys homage from Moonhearts mainman Mikal Cronin's debut solo nod on Trouble In Mind, some obnoxious analog oscillations from California's Blasted Canyons, some dusty reverb rock from Texas teenagers Fungi Girls, and a catchy beach-pop latecomer from the former Mika Miko members in Bleached. Random Old Records #36 finishes up with 18 or so minutes of classic mid-90s indie rock from Material Issue, Hazel, The Spinanes, and Sebadoh, who I'll be glad to cross off that live show bucket list in a couple weeks. Bakesale was released 17 years ago, and if that's not enough to make a guy feel old, I don't know what does. In between the tracks, you’ll hear a series of spooky inserts from “Death Of A Doll,” an episode of Inner Sanctum Mysteries originally aired October 18th, 1948. Right in time for Halloween, it will send a chill up your back!

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Random Old Records #36
Released 10/12/2011
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1. Let's Wrestle - "In Dreams Part II"

(Nursing Home, Merge 2011)

2. Bare Wires - "Sweet Little Stranger"

(Cheap Perfume, Southpaw 2011)

3. Fungi Girls - "Honey Face"

(Some Easy Magic, HoZac 2011)

4. Mikal Cronin - "Get Along"

(Mikal Cronin, Trouble In Mind 2011)

5. The Ketamines - "Line By Line"

(Line By Line 7", HoZac 2011)

6. The Wrong Words - "Summer's Gone"

(The Wrong Words, Trouble In Mind, 2011)

7. XRay Eyeballs - "Big Toe"

(Not Nothing, Kanine 2011)

--Death Of A Doll

8. The Strange Boys - "Me And You"

(Live Music, Rough Trade 2011)

9. Colleen Green - "Green One"

(Green One, Hardly Art 2011)

10. Black Bug - "Shard Of Glass"

(Police Helicopter 7", HoZac 2011)

11. Blasted Canyons - "Death And A Half"

(Blasted Canyons, Castleface 2011)

12. Burning Itch - "Dead End Street"

(Burning Itch, Tic Tac Totally 2011)

13. Wax Museums - "Mosquito Enormo"

(Eye Times, Trouble In Mind 2011)

--Death Of A Doll, Part 2

14. Dum Dum Girls - "Heartbeat"

(Only In Dreams, Sub Pop 2011)

15. The Pretenders - "Wait"

(The Pretenders, Sire 1980)

16. Bleached - "Think Of You"

(Carter 7", AF 2011)

17. The Spinanes - "Noel, Jonah, and Me"

(Manos, Sub Pop 1993)

18. Hazel - "Blank Florida"

(Are You Going To Eat That?, Sub Pop 1995)

--Death Of A Doll, Part 3

19. Material Issue - "A Very Good Thing"

(Freak City Soundtrack, Polygram 1994)

20. The Figgs - "Favorite Shirt"

(Low-Fi At Society High, Imago 1994)

21. Sebadoh - "Rebound"

(Bakesale, Sub Pop 1994)

22. Unrest - "Make Out Club"

(Perfect Teeth, 4AD 1993)

Random Old Records Podcast #35

Yeah dude, EPISODE #35 of Random Old Records is finished, fresh off my hard drive to yours, and this one is chock-full of jams! Not only that, but this time around there's no dance pop. Yep, 100% dance pop free! It kicks off with a track from Vancouver's Dead Ghosts, who put out one of the best rock n' roll debut albums I've heard in a long time earlier this year. It sounds like a bunch of degenerate punk kids who grew up on beat-up vinyl copies of early Stones records. A few minutes later, there's a tune from the upcoming second Dum Dum Girls record on Sub Pop, and Dee Dee Dum Dum has morphed into a master of the pop song. "Bedroom Eyes" sounds straight outta 1985, a simpler time when songs that still resembled rock n' roll made it onto pop radio. It sounds like the love song from a classic big-budget 80s flick, and just try to make it through without getting that chorus stuck in your head. It's impossible!

Elsewhere, I dig deep into my bank of classic tunes and pull out stuff by Big Star, The Raspberries, Captain Beefheart, Thee Headcoats, and Louis Jordan. Plus, you'll hear a set of original punk rock from The Ramones, Stiff Little Fingers, and The Rezillos, and a sprinkling of newer tracks by Jacuzzi Boys, Bare Wires, Fungi Girls, and Missing Monuments. Hot DAMN! Nestled deep in the playlist, you'll find a track from The Streys, a bunch of kids from the Cleveland suburbs who cranked out a few singles of hammer-dumb 60s garage punk before disappearing forever. It all wraps up with "Since You've Gone" by Spanky And Our Gang, one of the most dazzling displays of psychedelic vocal harmony I've ever heard.

All in all, this is one of the best episodes of Random Old Records I've put together in awhile, so go to the normal locations and download it right away! There's lots of loud guitars, simplistic hooks, and plenty of "hell yeah!" moments to be had. It's a perfect soundtrack for jumping around your room for like an hour!

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Random Old Records Podcast #35
Released 09/13/2011
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1. Dead Ghosts - "When It Comes To You"
(Dead Ghosts, Florida's Dying 2011)
2. Bare Wires - "I Lie Awake"
(Artificial Clouds, Tic Tac Totally 2009)
3. Jacuzzi Boys - "Crush"
(Glazin', Hardly Art 2011)
4. Fungi Girls - "Thanks For Following, Love Yoko"
(Denton Denton USA!, Play Pinball 2010)
5. Dum Dum Girls - "Bedroom Eyes"
(Only In Dreams, Sub Pop 2011)
6. The Rifles - "Local Boy"
(No Love Lost, Red Ink 2006)
--The kinda woman they write books about.
7. Louis Jordan - "Caldonia"
(No Moe! Louis Jordan's Greatest Hits, MCA 1992)
8. The Ramones - "Cretin Hop"
(Rocket To Russia, Sire 1978)
9. Stiff Little Fingers - "No More Of That"
(Inflammable Material, Rough Trade 1979)
10. The Rezillos - "No"
(Can't Stand The Rezillos, Sire 1978)
11. The Weirdos - "Solitary Confinement"
(Weird World Vol. 1, Frontier 1993)
--Good times...
12. King Tuff - "Connection"
(Was Dead, The Colonel 2008)
13. Missing Monuments - "Painted White"
(Painted White, Douchemaster 2011)
14. Big Star - "Way Out West"
(Radio City, Stax 1974)
15. Raspberries - "Every Way I Can"
(Fresh, Capitol 1972)
16. Thee Headcoats - "No Way Out"
(Heavens To Murgatroyd, Sub Pop 1992)
17. Len Price 3 - "Chinese Burn"
(Chinese Burn, Wicked Cool 2007)
18. The Nightcrawlers - "Little Black Egg"
(Nuggets, Rhino 1998)
--Zappa does Allen
19. Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - "Zig Zag Wanderer"
(Safe As Milk, Buddah 1967)
20. The Streys - "She Cools My Mind"
(Psychedelic States: Ohio In The 60s, Vol.3, Gear Fab 2000)
21. Brenda Lee - "Is It True"
(One Kiss Can Lead To Another, Rhino 2005)
22. Jail Weddings - "One Of These Days"
(Love Is Lawless, White Noise 2010)
23. Spanky and Our Gang - "Since You've Gone"
(Without Rhyme Or Reason, Mercury 1968)

Random Old Records Podcast #34

So yeah, Random Old Records Podcast has been coming out like clockwork every second Wednesday of the month for like a year or so now, but my plans got derailed in the last few days. I had the playlist finalized on Sunday, then came home from work on Monday to find that my computer had taken a dump. LAME! After a couple hours of shopping online and several more hours of staring at progress bars, I had a brand new machine loaded with jams and cracked software and whatnot, so here's Random Old Records Podcast #34, approximately a day late and eight hundred dollars short. It's got roughly an hour of my favorite songs from the past month, and I'm hoping at least some of you faithful readers and listeners will enjoy them, too.

Last month, I spoke a bit about being bored with new music, and judging by the stuff coming out lately, it seems like bands across the land are feeling the same way. My ears have gotten burned out by listening to nothing but lo-fi garage rock for awhile, and after hearing like fifty bands dealing in sounds of the sixties and seventies, the only logical place to go is the eighties. I just can't get down with all those sweater-vested weiners aping Talking Heads, but bands ripping off Depeche Mode, The Smiths, and The Cure get an immediate pass in my book. So this episode features a ton of classic tracks from the eighties by The Sound, The Comsat Angels, and Morrissey's band, along with songs by The Fresh And Onlys, Voxtrot, and Pernice Brothers that remind me of that post-punk time when bands slowed down and got all jangly and noisy and weird.

Speaking of new music and old music, Captured Tracks has become my favorite label of the last few months. On this episode, you'll hear tunes from Soft Metals, Widowspeak, and Hoop Dreams, which bring back the sounds of the late eighties so perfectly that listening to their records might put you into a time warp. If you like dark dance, gothic country, or nervy college kid pop, then you're gonna love this stuff as much as I do. That Mike Sniper guy has a singular vision for his label that rivals Tony Wilson in his prime. Believe it!

If you're a bit confused and are thinking "Well damn, I started listening to Random Old Records because it has a bunch of crazy garage rock n' roll jams every month" then I've got you covered, too. Random Old Records #34 finishes up with the best feral garage pop I've heard in the past month from the new Black Lips LP, The Happy Thoughts, Apache Dropout, and more! This one goes all over the place and back again, and I hope you have as much fun listening to it as I had putting it together!

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Random Old Records #34
Released 08/11/2011
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1. Tommy James and The Shondells - "Crimson And Clover"
(Crimson And Clover, Roulette 1968)
2. The Sound - "Winning"
(From The Lion's Mouth, Korova 1981)
3. The Comsat Angels - "Independence Day"
(Waiting For A Miracle, Polydor 1980)
4. Hoop Dreams - "XCPR"
(XCPR 7", Captured Tracks 2011)
--Forbidden World.
5. Soft Metals - "The Cold World Melts"
(Soft Metals, Captured Tracks 2011)
6. Zombi - "Slow Oscillations"
(Escape Velocity, Relapse 2011)
7. Peaking Lights - "Key Sparrow"
(936, Not Not Fun 2011)
8. Widowspeak - "In The Pines"
(Widowspeak, Captured Tracks 2011)
--The Mozzer speaks!
9. Pernice Brothers - "7:30"
(The World Won't End, Ashmont 2001)
10. Voxtrot - "Raised By Wolves"
(Raised By Wolves, Cult Hero 2005)
11. The Smiths - "Sheila Take A Bow"
(Louder Than Bombs, Sire 1987)
12. The Fresh & Onlys - "Waterfall"
(Play It Strange, In The Red 2010)
--Amy Winehouse, 27, etc.
13. Black Lips - "New Direction"
(Arabia Mountain, Vice 2011)
14. The Happy Thoughts - "One More Fish"
(The Happy Thougts, Hozac 2011)
15. The People's Temple - "Axe Man"
(Sons Of Stone, Hozac 2011)
16. Apache Dropout - "Sister Burnout"
(Shot Down 7", Trouble In Mind 2011)
17. Ty Segall - "My Head Explodes"
(Goodbye Bread, Drag City 2011)

Random Old Records Podcast #33

Summer, summer, summertime! I threw this one together at the last minute, but I think I did a pretty good job of capturing the mood of this lazy, hazy, hot July. Random Old Records Podcast #33 drifts by in a dreamy blur of psychedelic moods, shimmering reverb guitar, and loping dance beats, with a mix of new and old tracks. If you're one of those people who are melting in this punishing 100+ degree heatwave rocking the midwest, and just want to sit around in a dark room getting lifted all day, this is the podcast for you!

Episode #33 kicks off with the all-time classic opening medley from the debut LP by The Soft Machine, a towering groove filled with stunning drums from Robert Wyatt, screeching organs, and slow-burning instrumental fury, and goes into some screaming garage psych from The Night Beats and Thee Oh Sees, then a Brit-psych style workout from The Paperhead, who put out one of the best LPs of the year on Trouble In Mind a few months back. I've been raving about them ever since, and now I'm SUPER-PUMPED that they're playing a free show at one of the best new venues in Cincinnati, MOTR Pub, on July 27th. If you're anywhere close, come check it out! Also, check out the perfect lo-fi 60s psych vibe of Jeffrey Novak on this episode of Random Old Records. He just so happens to be the producer of The Paperhead LP, and will be guesting on keyboards on their tour. Sweet deal!

Elsewhere, you'll hear dreamy electronic-psych tracks from Washed Out, Hype Williams, and Black Moth Super Rainbow, and more chill jams from the likes of Pure X (AWESOME new LP), Seapony, Sic Alps, White Fence, Blouse, and Kelley Stoltz. There's classic tracks from The Kinks and Matching Mole, plus a few more surprises to round things out. Hopefully y'all dig it! There's some of my favorite songs of the year on this thing, so check it out and let me know what you think. Enjoy your summer, folks!

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Random Old Records #33
Released 07/13/2011
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1. The Soft Machine - "Hope For Happiness/Joy Of A Toy/Hope For Happiness (Reprise)"
(The Soft Machine, ABC/Probe 1968)
2. Night Beats - "Hallucinojenny"
(Night Beats, Trouble In Mind 2011)
3. Thee Oh Sees - "Corrupted Coffin"
(Castlemania, In The Red 2011)
4. The Paperhead - "Back To Those Days"
(The Paperhead, Trouble In Mind 2011)
5. Pure X - "Voices"(Pleasure, Acephale 2011)
--Searching for the perfect wave.
6. Matching Mole - "O Caroline"
(Matching Mole, CBS 1972)
7. Blouse - "Shadow"
(Shadow 7", Sub Pop 2011)
8. Seapony - "So Low"
(Go With Me, Hardly Art 2011)
9. Black Moth Super Rainbow - "Moody Day"
(Extra Flavor, Graveface 2011)
10. Hype Williams - "Your Girl Smells Chung When She Wears Dior"
(One Nation, Hippos In Tanks 2011)
11. Washed Out - "Echoes"
(Within And Without, Sub Pop 2011)
--Owlsley blue, British dudes, etc.
12. Kelley Stoltz - "Please Visit Soon"
(Antique Glow, Jackpine Social Club 2004)
13. Sic Alps - "Cement Surfboard"
(Napa Asylum, Drag City 2011)
14. White Fence - "Art Investor Collector"
(Is Growing Faith, Woodsist 2010)
15. Jeffrey Novak - "Queen Of Moods"
(After The Ball, LMN Recordings 2009)
16. The Kinks - "People Take Pictures Of Each Other"
(Village Green Preservation Society, Reprise 1968)
17. The Go - "Caroline"
(Howl On The Haunted Beat You Ride, Cass 2007)

Random Old Records Podcast #32

So yeah, the air conditioning has been broken in my office at work all week long. Neat, huh? It's like eleventy billion degrees outside, so it's a perfect time to drop a brand new podcast of hot rock n' roll jams to sweat out the summer months with! Random Old Records EPISODE #32 features brand new tracks from Black Lips, Wax Museums, Ty Segall, and Cults, each from LPs that are sure to top the year-end lists. Ty Segall in particular has a stunner ready for all of you with Goodbye Bread, which thickens and slows down his bratty garage punk sound and brings the superficial Beatles and Nirvana influences of his past releases to the forefront in a way that will have mainstream rock critics blowing their stacks when they finally get around to checking it out.

To be honest, I wasn't much of a Black Lips fan before, but the steady hand of super-producer Mark Ronson guides the band and polishes the shit out of their hooks and sound on the new Arabia Mountain. The blasts of bratty feedback and in-jokey murkiness of their previous releases has been replaced with huge gang choruses, sleazy saxophones, and more refined melodies than ever before. Random Old Records #32 includes "Raw Meat," which is a short and sweet Ramones homage that might be the best song they've ever recorded. Check it out!

Also, you may notice some strange and different sounds on Random Old Records #32 that you haven't heard in previous episodes. For some reason, this new wave of dark and moody electronic rock has really been catching my ear in the past month or two, most notably the releases from Brooklyn's Captured Tracks label. On this episode, you'll hear a KILLER track from Portland's Blouse called "Into Black." These folks sound like they're trying to create a late 80s David Lynch movie credits theme with every track, and that's not really a bad thing in my book. You'll also hear darker Suicide-style tunes from The Soft Moon and Led Er Est that are on steady rotation around Random Old Records HQ.

You'll also hear new hot blasts of rock n' roll from Wax Idols, The Hussy, Personal And The Pizzas, Brian Olive, Ramma Lamma, The People's Temple, Natural Child, Smith Westerns, Thee Oh Sees, and loads more! Click the links below to stream, subscribe, or download the latest episode and let me know that you think. As always, thanks for reading and listening, and if you're in the Cincinnati area, come out to see The Hussy from Madison, Wisconsin at the Comet tonight! Free show and burritos!

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to Random Old Records via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or RSS. If you like the show, please rate it and write a review! You can also go the traditional route and stream or download the new episode below. Come back next month (or so) for another episode of Random Old Records. As always, thanks for listening!

Random Old Records #32
Released 06/08/2011
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1. Wax Idols - "All Too Human"
(All Too Human 7", Hozac 2011)
2. Bad Banana - "Cry About It"
(Cry About It 7", Puzzle Pieces 2011)
3. Seapony - "Blue Star"
(Go With Me, Hardly Art 2011)
4. Blouse - "Into Black"
(Into Black 7", Captured Tracks 2011)
5. Cults - "Never Saw The Point"
(Cults, Columbia 2011)
6. The Soft Moon - "We Are We"
(The Soft Moon, Captured Tracks 2010)
7. Led Er Est - "Opto 5"
(May, Captured Tracks 2011)
--We wanna be free!
8. Natural Child - "Easy Street"
(1971, Infinity Cat 2011)
9. Shapes Have Fangs - "Dinner In The Dark"
(Dinner In The Dark, Reverb Appreciation Society 2011)
10. The People's Temple - "Keeper (Of Souls)"
(Sons Of Stone, Hozac 2011)
11. Thee Oh Sees - "The Whipping Continues"
(Castlemania, In The Red 2011)
12. Ty Segall - "The Floor"
(Goodbye Bread, Drag City 2011)
--Who gives drugs to robots?
13. Smith Westerns - "End Of The Night"
(Dye It Blonde, Fat Possum 2011)
14. Brian Olive - "Back Sliding Soul"
(Two Of Everything, Alive 2011)
15. The Greenhornes - "Back Sliding Soul"
(The Greenhornes, Telstar 2001)
16. The Soledad Brothers - "Downtown Paranoia Blues"
(The Hardest Walk, Alive 2006)
--See the dirt gang!
17. Ramma Lamma - "Truthin'"
(Tiger 7", Certified PR 2010)
18. Black Lips - "Raw Meat"
(Arabia Mountain, Vice 2011)
19. GG King - "Incendiary Device"
(Esoteric Lore, Rob's House 2011)
20. The Hussy - "Sexi Ladi"
(Cement Tomb Mind Control, Slow Fizz 2011)
21. Wax Museums - "Bruiser"
(Eye Times, Trouble In Mind 2011)
22. Personal & The Pizzas - "Dead Meat"
(Dead Meat 7", Total Punk 2011)

Random Old Records Podcast #31

Oh wow, is it really May already? Well, according to the calendar it is, so here's EPISODE #31 of Random Old Records! April was an amazing month for rock n' roll, and I spent it buying a whole pile of records and getting my face melted off at live shows by the Black Lips, Vivian Girls, Ty Segall, The Fresh and Onlys, The Black Angels, Davila 666, Magic Jake and The Power Crystals, and YOWZA! Yeah, luckily a whole buncha sweet bands played around Cincinnati and got a fantastic turnout each time, so hopefully that bodes well for the summer and we'll be seeing even more coming soon!

Anyway, Random Old Records #31 is loaded with an hour of new rock n' roll, including a BRAND NEW track from glam pop wizard King Tuff, fresh off a recent Scion A/V split single with the Hex Dispensers. It's called "Hands" and it sounds like a long lost Slade song. His upcoming LP is gonna be something else! The featured label this time around is Trouble In Mind, who should get some kinda award for putting out dozens of records without a single bad one in the bunch! This time around, you'll hear a track from each of their latest releases (Wrong Words, The Paperhead, Jeffrey Novak, and Alex Cuervo), plus Mean Jeans doing a TORRID Sparks cover from the TiM Record Store Day split 7"! That The Paperhead LP is freakin' amazing, by the way. It's a buncha 18 year old kids channeling vintage 60s psych pop through a 90s Elephant 6 lens and wrapping it all in a haze of youthful vigor and pie-eyed optimism. Not to be missed!

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Random Old Records #31
Released 05/11/2011

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1. Magic Jake and The Power Crystals - "Power Crystals"
(Magic Jake and The Power Crystals, Burger 2011)
2. Natural Child - "Hard Workin' Man"
(1971, Infinity Cat 2011)
3. Ty Segall - "Buick Mackane"
(Ty Rex, Goner 2011)
4. Silver Shampoo - "Streaks Of Satan"
(Higher and Higher, Krazypunx 2011)
5. Alex Cuervo - "Hands Of Glory"
(4 Song Solo EP, Trouble In Mind 2011)
6. King Tuff - "Hands"
(Hex Dispensers/King Tuff 7", Scion A/V 2011)
--Werewolves On Wheels!
7. Dum Dum Girls - "He Gets Me High"
(He Gets Me High, Sub Pop 2011)
8. White Mystery - "Good Girl"
(Blood And Venom, self-released 2011)
9. Shannon And The Clams - "Toxic Revenge"
(Sleep Talk, 1234 Go! 2011)
10. The Unwed Teenage Mothers - "Change Your Mind"
(Blonde Girls, Play Pinball 2010)
11. Mean Jeans - "Forever Young"
(Record Store Day 2011 7", Trouble In Mind 2011)
12. White Wires - "Pogo 'Til I Puke Tonight"
(Pogo 'Til I Puke Tonight 7", Ugly Pop 2010)
--How do you get to know someone?
13. Hunx And His Punx - "Tonite Tonite"
(Too Young To Fall In Love, Hardly Art 2011)
14. First Base - "She's Boy Crazy"
(She's Boy Crazy 7", Play Pinball 2010)
15. The Guitars - "She's Got Your Heart"
(High Action, self-released 2011)
16. The Fresh And Onlys - "Fascinated"
(Play It Strange, In The Red 2010)
17. Jeffrey Novak - "Looking Down At You"
(4 Song Solo EP, Trouble In Mind 2011)
18. The Paperhead - "Do You Ever Think Of Me?"
(The Paperhead, Trouble In Mind 2011)
--You must have a widescreen navel!
19. Snake Flower 2 - "You Can't Erase A Mirror"
(Memory Castle 7", Southpaw 2011)
20. The Black Angels - "At Night"
(Phosgene Nightmare, Blue Horizon 2011)
21. The Wrong Words - "Wrong Again"
(The Wrong Words, Trouble In Mind 2011)
22. Sex Clark Five - "Detention Girls"
(Strum and Drum, Records To Russia 1986)
23. Rockpile - "When I Write The Book"
(Seconds Of Pleasure, Columbia 1980)

Random Old Records Podcast #29

Hey folks, it's that time again! Random Old Records Podcast EPISODE #29 is out NOW! Yes sir or madam, get ready for a solid hour of new and old rock n' roll, punk, garage, soul, psych, and raw n' REAL shouts from the bottom of the gutter. 

Kicking things off on #29 is a track from the LP I've been spinning the most in the last few months, the latest and greatest from Ottawa's White Wires! "I Can Tell" is a classic, slow-building power pop punk rawk jam, and the rest of the record is more of the amazing same. After that, you'll hear a track off the long-awaited new 7" from Florida's Garbo's Daughter, the triumphant return of Denton, TX's all star punks High Tension Wires, up-and-coming Richmond trash rockers Sports Bar, the dreamy new Vivian Girls side projects La Sera and The Babies, and a bunch of spankin' NEW bangers from the likes of Charlie and The Skunks, Dead Ghosts, Hornet Leg, Smith Westerns, Wheels On Fire, Trent Fox and the  Tenants, Caroline and the Treats, and WHEW, a whole lot MORE! This is one of the best episodes I've cranked out in recent months, so download it, rock out, and tell all your friends.

I guess the most exciting new news this month is that Random Old Records Podcast is now iTunes OFFICIAL! Yep, I broke down and threw my credit card number Apple's way and went legit. You can now search for Random Old Records in the iTunes store and subscribe directly. Neat, huh? Here's the official page if ya want to go poking around. If you like the show, please rate it and write a review! You can also go the traditional route and stream or download the new episode below. Come back next month (or so) for another episode of Random Old Records. As always, thanks for listening!

Random Old Records Podcast #29
Released 03/07/2011
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1. White Wires - "I Can Tell"
(WWII, Dirtnap 2010)
2. Garbo's Daughter - "Mascara Stains On My Pillowcase"
(Spin and Melt 7", Surfin' Ki 2011)
3. High Tension Wires - "Backbone"
(Welcome New Machine, Dirtnap 2011)
4. Charlie and the Skunks - "Ooh La La La La"
(Take An Ice Cream Scoop Out Of My Brain 7", Eradicator 2011)
5. Fast Cars - "The Kids Just Wanna Dance"
(Coming...Ready Or Not, Detour 2001)
6. Smith Westerns - "Weekend"
(Dye It Blonde, Fat Possum 2011)
--Winter storms...
7. The Yo-Yos - "Leaning On You"
(A History Of Garage And Frat Bands In Memphis 1960-75, Shangri-La 2001)
8. Dead Ghosts - "I Want You To Know"
(Dead Ghosts, Florida's Dying 2010)
9. Sports Bar - "Anisa, Nah She Don't Live Here No More"
(Sports Bar, self-released 2010)
10. Trent Fox and the Tenants - "Outta My Mind"
(Mess Around 7", Kind Turkey 2011)
11. The Giljoteens - "You'll Miss Me"
(Get A Head, Teen Sounds 2004)
12. Wheels On Fire - "Broken Up"
(Cherry Bomb 7", Kind Turkey 2010)
13. The Exprollers - "Shake And Shout"
(Run! Rollers Run!, Stiffeen 2004)
--Partners in crime...
14. The Babies - "Breakin' The Law"
(The Babies, Shrimper 2011)
15. Hornet Leg - "Covered In Blood"
(Blood Trilogy 7", K 2010)
16. Timmy's Organism - "Give It To Me Babe"
(Rise Of The Green Gorilla, Sacred Bones 2010)
17. Cum Stain - "Broke My Dick"
(Cum Stain, Burger 2010)
18. Le Face - "Exits/Illusions"
(Le Face, Tic Tac Totally 2009)
19. The Bold Ones - "Screwing Around"
(Open Your Mouth 7", HoZac 2009)
20. The Lids - "Fool For You"
(The Lids, Rip Off 2004)
--Marsha, the erotic housewife...
21. Caroline and the Treats - "Let's Do It"
(Bad All Over, House Of Rock 2010)
22. The Glossines - "Underage"
(Hey! It's A Teenacide Pajama Party, Teenacide 2004)
23. The Pleasure Kills - "I Want You"
(Bring Me A Match, Polypore 2010)
24. Rocket - "Join The Professionals"
(Girls With Candy Hearts, Teenacide 2006)
25. La Sera - "Dedicated To The One I Love"
(Devils Hearts Grow Gold 7", Hardly Art 2011)

David F. Friedman

The Monarch Of Exploitation

RIP

1923-2011

Random Old Records Podcast #28

2011 is in full swing, and there's a ton of amazing new jams coming out, so what better time to drop another installment of Random Old Records?! EPISODE #28 is a tribute to the ultimate diva Tura Satana (RIP) and it features a whole bunch of her classic quotes from the classic Russ Meyer flick Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill! As far as the musical portion goes, it starts off with some classic '90s tunes from Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney, then moves into a mix of new and old rock n' roll from Spencey Dude And The Doodles, 20/20, Mind Spiders, Mr. Airplane Man, and Bare Wires, then finishes up with brand spankin' new tracks from Smith Westerns, Jail Weddings, and the Strange Boys!

Big surprise that the most intriguing track to drop in 2011 so far comes from Austin's Strange Boys, off a FREE Scion Garage A/V single. My favorite band of 2010 goes OUT THERE with a seriously arty song that mixes yacht rock, silly white reggae, barking preacher voices, and their patented Stonesy swagger into a four minute firebomb interrupted by jolts of AM radio static. It sounds like a band of tired rock n' rollers driving their van down a faceless highway at 4 AM, sick of all the previously packed CDs, tapes, and iPods, desperately trying to find something good to listen to on the radio. Incredible!

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Random Old Records Podcast #28
Released 02/16/11
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1. Bikini Kill - "Rebel Girl"

2. Sleater-Kinney - "One More Hour"

3. Pavement - "Major Leagues"

4. The Ettes - "Love Lies Bleeding"

5. The Geraldine Fibbers - "Seven Or In 10"

--Tura Satana Speaks (RIP)

6. Bare Wires - "Seeking Love"

7. Mind Spiders - "No. 3"

8. The Weakends - "Slow Down And Low"

9. Mr. Airplane Man - "Commit A Crime"

10. Spencey Dude And The Doodles - "Flirting"

11. The Barreracudas - "Diet Coke"

--Tura Satana Speaks (RIP) Part 2

12. 20/20 - "Going Up With My Girl"

13. Little Bob Story - "Baby Don't Cry"

14. The RPM's - "Loved By You"

15. The Poppees - "She's Got It"

16. The Red Button - "Gonna Make You Mine"

--Tura Satana Speaks (RIP) Part 3

17. Natural Child - "Crack Mountain"

18. Teenanger - "Big Spirit Payback"

19. The Strange Boys - "American Radio"

20. Smith Westerns - "Dance Away"

21. Jail Weddings - "What Did You Do With My Gun?"